Louisville Ballet tackles love and loss through visual arts

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When Australian choreographer Lucas Jervies flew into Louisville almost six weeks ago, it was a homecoming of sorts.

He first came to here in 2015 to create a new work for the Louisville Ballet. This time, Jervies returned to create a work stemming from an idea he hatched with his friend and former colleague Robert Curran, who is now Louisville Ballet artistic and executive director.

The two men – who more than a decade ago staged this first work together at a company they started in their home country of Australia – created a ballet based on big ideas about love and loss and inspired in part on William Blake’s poem “The Human Abstract.”